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Syria accused of using chemical weapons

Secretary of State John Kerry urged NATO to prepare for the possible use of
chemical weapons by Syria. This came on Tuesday, the same day that a senior
Israeli military intelligence official said Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad had
used such weapons last month in his battle against insurgents. It was the first
time Israel had accused the embattled Syrian leader of using his stockpile of
nonconventional weapons. The assessment was based on visual evidence, could raise
pressure on the U.S. and other Western countries to intervene in Syria. Britain and
France recently announced that they had evidence that Assad's government had used
chemical weapons.